Second-Generation Holocaust Literature: Legacies of Survival and Perpetration, Erin McGlothlin (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2006), xviii + 254 pp., cloth 75.00
As the last generation of Holocaust survivors—who have written their memoirs, agreed to be video-taped, spoken to our students, and attended Holocaust studies conferences—departs from this earth, increasing scholarly attention has been paid to the so-called “second-generation.” The term, developed b...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 136-139 |
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| Summary: | As the last generation of Holocaust survivors—who have written their memoirs, agreed to be video-taped, spoken to our students, and attended Holocaust studies conferences—departs from this earth, increasing scholarly attention has been paid to the so-called “second-generation.” The term, developed by Alan Berger and Efraim Sicher, generally is used to refer solely to the children of survivors. The “postmemory generation”—as Marianne Hirsch termed it in her monograph Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory—refers to “those who grew up dominated by narratives that preceded their birth, whose own belated stories are evacuated by the stories of the previous generation shaped by traumatic events that can be neither understood nor recreated. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcn014 |